The Begin menu is the menu from which the player can play levels, access Settings, ProgressDOS and Help, and use the Shut Down menu to restart or shut down the game. If you are already playing a level, Load save will change to Continue. If you press it, the menu will close and you can continue playing. New game will remain the same, but if you press it, the game mode you are playing will be closed, and it will cost you 1 heart to close it.
There are some alternatives to the Begin menu such as the Program Controller, the Launcher in BarOS, or the Main menu in B OS.
Begin Menus[]
Progressbar OS[]
ProgressbarOS Mainline[]
In ProgressbarOS it is called the Begin menu and it is based on the Start Menu. It first appeared in PB-DOS Shell, through it wasn't reused until Progressbar Chitown.
Progressbar Server[]
In Progressbar Server it is called the Begin Menu and it is based on the Start Menu. It first appeared in Progressbar NOT 4.0 Server.
CL-DOS/CL-Shell/CL-OS/Skyfox OS[]
Desktop Operating Systems[]
The concept of the Begin Menu first appeared in CL-DOS "Snowball", the beta version of CL-DOS 5.0 which would introduce a formal Begin Menu. Begin Menu would remain as a core feature in every operating system afterwards, except in Skyfox OS 12 and Skyfox OS 13 where they would be briefly stripped out.
